xii, 831 pages ; 23 cm

Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-Semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more

Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-786) and index

1. The Jew as non-European -- 2. A glimmering of dawn in the West -- 3. An ambivalent emancipation in the West -- 4. Incarceration : the Jews of tsarist Russia -- 5. The triumph of emancipation in the West -- 6. Jews in an emancipated economy -- 7. The impact of Western culture on Jewish life -- 8. A sephardic-oriental design -- 9. The rise of Jewish life in America -- 10. False dawn in the East : Alexander II and the era of "enlightenment" -- 11. Russian twilight : the era of pogroms and May laws -- 12. A migration of East European Jewry, 1881-1914 -- 13. The onset of modern antisemitism -- 14. The mutation of racism -- 15. The rise of Zionism -- 16. The evolution of Jewish radicalism : tsarist Russia -- 17. Socialist "internationalism" in Western Europe : the trauma of World War I -- 18. The triumph of Bolshevism -- 19. The Balfour Declaration and the Jewish national home -- 20. The legacy of progressivism : immigrant Jewry in the United States -- 21. Successor states and minority guarantees, 1919-1939 -- 22. The triumph of East European fascism -- 23. A final symbiosis of Jewish and Western culture -- 24. A climactic onslaught of postwar antisemitism -- 25. The triumph of Nazism -- 26. The quest for sanctuary, 1933-1939 -- 27. The Holocaust of European Jewry -- 28. The final solution and the struggle for Jewish survival -- 29. The birth of Israel -- 30. Eastern Jewry in the postwar : a failed convalescence -- 31. A precarious revival in Western Europe -- 32. The Jews of British commonwealth -- 33. A Latin Israel in the southern hemisphere -- 34. The efflorescence of American-Jewish community -- 35. The Jewish state and world Jewry -- 36. Israel, the United States, and the struggle for Soviet Jewry

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